The movement of people to a new area or country, typically in order to find work.
economic migrancy
migrancy contributes to the rich tapestry of the cosmopolitan city
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Coles further suggests that migrancy and poverty, in addition to the physical squalor they often generate, are destructive to the personality.
He said that the idea of us "pulling up the drawbridge" to stop the "hordes" of EU migrants is harmful, and could cause a backlash against migrancy within Europe.
It is certainly true that mine-owners remained committed to migrancy.
Migrancy and marginality are nowadays much more talked about in academic circles than by refugees tucked away in lorries and asylum seekers languishing in dilapidated inner-city housing estates.
At the end, it's migrancy and a consistent pining for a lost home that accounts for their moments of highs and lows.
Crammed with the detritus of migrancy - suitcases, chairs, blankets, kitchen utensils, a bicycle - it was a Leviathan memento mori to the hopes, fears and uncertainties of lives in transit.
Quite often, and quite confusingly, it seems to be assumed that colonial rule necessarily involves large-scale migrancy and settlement of European populations in non-European regions.
There are sections about poverty's effect on the epidemic, the influence of sex trafficking, migrancy and unemployment, and an in-depth look at globalisation and Third World debt.
Many more, perhaps two to three million, did not receive land and lost their livelihoods in the cities and were forced into economic migrancy.
Labour migrancy was seen not only as socially destructive of both rural and urban communities but as leading to high turnover, acute difficulties in training, and low productivity.